Taking Education Really Seriously Book

	List of figures and tables
	Notes on contributors
1	Taking education really seriously: four years' hard labour	1
Pt. I	The modernising agenda	15
2	High expectations and standards for all, no matter what: creating a world class education service in England	17
Pt. II	Alternative perspectives, particular values	43
3	Labour, learning and the economy: a 'policy sociology' perspective	45
4	The good, the bad and the ugly: on four years' Labour education policy	57
Pt. III	Feeling policy realities on the pulses	71
5	Renewed hopes and lost opportunities: early childhood in the early years of the Labour government	73
6	The impact of New Labour's educational policy on primary schools	84
7	Will the curriculum caterpillar ever learn to fly?	96
8	Further education under New Labour: translating the language of aspiration into a springboard for achievement	108
9	'It lifted my sights': revaluing higher education in an age of new technology	119
10	The creative society: reuniting schools and lifelong learning	130
Pt. IV	Levers of change	141
11	Target setting, policy pathology and student perspectives: learning to labour in new times	143
12	Modernising headteachers as leaders: an analysis of the NPQH	155
13	Reforming teachers' pay: crossing the threshold	169
14	'Modernising LEAs: changing framework of values	183
Pt. V	Rethinking the roles and realities of educational research	195
15	Revitalising educational research: past lessons and future prospects	197
16	Restructuring educational research for the 'Third Way'?	209
Pt. VI	International perspectives	223
17	The two solitudes: policy makers and policy implementers	225
18	Managing the myth of the self-managing school as an international educational reform	238
	Index	254